Baby Name Uniqueness Analyzer

Determines how likely a person with a given name is to meet another person with the same name. For babies born today, it's rarer than you might think.

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Birth Year: Changing the year will also let you see how a name is trending. Gender: Girls Boys Acquaintance Pool Size: For calculating the probability of meeting another person with the same name.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Baby Name Uniqueness Analyzer can determine how likely a person with a given name is to encounter another individual with the same name.

With the latest trends of selecting unique and unusual names, popular names are not as popular as they once were. Only 7.8% of children born last year were given one of the top ten most common names from last year. In comparison, twenty five years ago 17.7% of children would be given one of the top ten most common names from twenty five years ago, and 50 years ago that number was 20.5%. A person born into our parents' generation is nearly three times as likely to be given a top ten name than a person born into our kids' generation. As someone who had two other 'Sara's (spelled differently) in her kindergarten class, I am fascinated that the probability of any two children in my daughter's kindergarten class having the same name is only 15.9%. The probability of any three sharing the same name? Only 0.3%.

Were there really ten boys named Sarah in 2015?
Looks like! Our data comes direct from the US Census Data,
and that's what the Social Security Administration (SSA) reports. With a 3,961,981 babies born in 2015, there's bound to be at
least a few reporting errors. There's also going to be a few really far out their names. There may have been 10 boys named Sarah,
but there were also 16 girls named 'Abcde'.

Hey, my daughter's/brother's/neighbor's name isn't on the list! What gives?
Congratulations on a super rare name! Your daughter/brother/neighbor is one of a kind! Or, more precisely, one of no more than 4.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) does not include baby names when fewer than five babies were given
the name.